Prompt-based polyp segmentation during endoscopy

The incidence of gastrointestinal cancers has been increasing with a trend to affect younger patients (Bray et al., 2018). It is crucial to screen for early-stage cancer of the digestive tract. The survival rate of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients is over 95% at the first stage of the disease but dramatically decreases to lower than 35% at the fourth and fifth stages (Bernal et al., 2012). Presently, endoscopy is extensively employed in clinical practice and has emerged as the standard approach for screening digestive tract diseases (Alfarone et al., 2022).